Teferi Abate Adem

Research Anthropologist

Teferi Abate Adem holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology (Boston University 2000), M.A. in Social Anthropology (Addis Ababa University, 1993), and B.A. in Sociology (Addis Ababa University, 1987). In addition to working on eHRAF World Cultures, Teferi has been involved in HRAF’s multi-year cooperative project with George Mason University on modeling pastoral conflicts in Eastern Africa. Prior to joining HRAF, he was a visiting professor of international development and social change (IDSC) at Clark University, a postdoctoral fellow at the Program in Agrarian Studies (Yale University) and Assistant Professor at Addis Ababa University where he served as Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

Teferi’s research interests encompass a variety of historical and comparative themes at the intersection of agrarian change, natural resources management, institutions for mutual help and collective action, and household and community level effects of state powers and global markets.

Adem, Teferi Abate. 1998. Land, Labour and Capital in the Social Organization of Farmers: A Study of Local-level Dynamics in Southwestern Wollo. Addis Ababa University Press.

Adem, Teferi Abate. 1997. “Land Redistribution Program and the Micro-Dynamics of Land Access and Use in Amhara: The Case of Two Communities in South Wollo”. In Katsuyoshi Fukui, Eisei Kurimoto, Masayoshi Shigeta (eds.), Ethiopia in broader Perspective: Papers of the XIIIth International conference of Ethiopian studies, Kyoto: Shokado.